PerreaultForever

I imagine a loss like that must be even more demoralizing than the usual losses. They had some puck luck, some PP activity, decent effort level and still no result. The quit has to come out in some of them for sure. Can't imagine at least some of them aren't thinking how the heck do I get out of here? Watching Rosen try to defend McKinnon behind the net was just comical. They won most of the key puck battles. Team is hopeless. So which Cowboy Junkies song is next? Cause Cheap Is How I Feel? The Things We Do To Each Other? Still Lost? Spiral Down? When The Bottom Fell Out? Misery? The ones I want are, All That Reckoning and then New Dawn Coming. But more likely, We will Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive.

Except, the outcome is a self fulfilling prophecy if you build a team around the continually injured and a bunch of kids. This is why it was easy to predict back in the summer. It may be slightly worse than expected but it's not unexpected. We have one outlier in Dahlin leave of absence. That could not have been predicted. Norris, Greenway, Zucker, are all players with continual injury history. Danforth is whatever as 4th liners are a dime a dozen. Kozak was the same. So you have injuries to Benson and Kulich. Every team is missing some guys. Tkachuks in Florida and Ottawa for example. Lindholm and Mittelstadt in Boston. Toronto might have just lost Matthews. Competition has injuries too. It's a lame but predictable excuse.

Oh I'm 100% in agreement with that. I'm just predicting what he will say, not agreeing with it. I wanted him gone last year. I never wanted him hired. I can't wait to see him go.

I guess that feeling was indigestion.

Does Kesselring hit or fight? I'm still waiting to see something from him. He just looks lethargic and awkward to me most of the time. Doan didn't hit any of his old buddies. Guess he still likes them. Remember when we were discussing getting Trouba for their cap dump plan?

The loser body language is back. The hung head acceptance. The lack of fight. Quitting on puck battles. The losing culture is setting back in (if it ever left). When that happens to most teams they usually fire their coach. Sabres? They probably just listen to Rob Ray nonsense.

Watching the Edmonton Philly game first intermission sportsnet guys named Sabres as the team most in need of a major trade or shake up. This is where they are. Could a Peterka hat trick tonight get Adams fired? We can only hope.

FFS I never care about this BS internet exactitude. People always find ways to critique others. Who literally gives a S##T. Doesn't matter what you said. Doesn't matter what I said. Sabres just suck and I blame Pegula above all else. That's ALL that matters. Glad to amuse though. Maybe you got some more here. Carry on.

Or they felt the hospitals in Sweden were better, and of course she likely has family there for her support. I would be pretty surprised if Dahlin was not a return to Sweden guy when he retires.

Whatever. The crux of the issue is Pegula has for the most part hired inexperienced people to run this franchise. Nitpicking. I'm basically going tank forward and they made Nolan a sacrificial lamb for the tank.

The NCAA thing is very valid. This is why McKenna is not exactly tearing it up this year as well.

I know, but you wait. Once Adams has a presser he will use injuries as the excuse. It'll be a veiled we can't blame injuries but............. sort of thing.

If the Bruins waive Aspirot claim him. Good, stable, boring and uninspiring stay at home D man who made virtually no mistakes in the games he played. Much better than Bryson and a reasonably good compliment to any of the puck movers.

Just call me Nostradamus. Told ya injuries would be this year's excuse before the season even started.

Matt Tkachuk. Only bigger. Definitely not Tuch. A little like Martone maybe. I know the skating critique and a lot of the bigger guys get that critique. It's an over rated stat imo. It's not like he's a bad skater, just not the best. Lots of guys who people said didn't skate well enough make it big. Look at Geekie on the Bruins. People said he'd never be more than a 4th liner due to poor skating. Last time I checked he was tied for most goals in the league. They adapt.